The Scarlet Pimpernel Quotes
Prince Regent: Percy. Fashionably late, as usual.
Sir Percy: Sink me, your highness, it was this damned cravat. Simply refused to tie. I ask you. Sticking out like a pincushion.
Prince Regent: I might have known it would be something serious.
Sir Percy: Sink me, your highness, it was this damned cravat. Simply refused to tie. I ask you. Sticking out like a pincushion.
Prince Regent: I might have known it would be something serious.
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Sir Percy: [on his poem] Well, the pretty thing rhymes in four places, don't you see? And if a rhyme rhymes, it makes a poem, if you follow me.
Prince Regent: As if it were crystal clear... my dear!
Prince Regent: As if it were crystal clear... my dear!
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Sir Percy: He was looking for the Scarlet Pimpernel. I pray he found a fool.
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Sir Percy: If I were to tell you that I adore you, would you have me do so stintingly?
Marguerite: *Adore* me?
Sir Percy: Or would you have me declare it as I feel it, with all my heart?
Marguerite: *Adore* me?
Sir Percy: Or would you have me declare it as I feel it, with all my heart?
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Sir Percy: If we are to succeed, we must maintain our anonymity, mask our identities. Even if it means suffering the mockery of others. Being taken for fools, fops, nitwits, even cowards.
Lord Timothy Hastings: That's the easy part. The hard part's not being able to boast about our exploits to the ladies.
Lord Timothy Hastings: That's the easy part. The hard part's not being able to boast about our exploits to the ladies.
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Sir Percy: Let that be a lesson to you, sir. Never take anyone for granted.
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Sir Percy: My dear chap, I never would have dreamt of depriving you of your moment of triumph. Alas, a moment was all I could spare.
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Sir Percy: They seek him here. They seek him there. Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in Heaven? Or is he in Hell? That damned, elusive, pimpernel.
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Sir Percy: They seek him here. They seek him there. Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in Heaven? Or is he in Hell? That damned, illusive, pimpernel.
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Sir Percy: What is it you Frenchies say? Tou-che? You see I'm a poet, and you didn't know it, what?
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Sir Percy: You must tell me all about yourself, in every detail, but oh, so slowly, so very slowly, so that it takes a very, very long time.
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Armand St. Just: [of Marguerite's betrayal of St-Cyr] So that is why you ceased to love her. What a tragedy.
Percy Blakeney: Ceased? I shall love her until the day I die. That's the tragedy.
Percy Blakeney: Ceased? I shall love her until the day I die. That's the tragedy.
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Armand: You used me.
Chauvelin: Yes. And as long as you are here to serve the committee, I shall continue to use you.
Chauvelin: Yes. And as long as you are here to serve the committee, I shall continue to use you.
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Chauvelin: I am pleased to see that you have come to your senses.
Count de Tournay: You left me little choice.
Chauvelin: That was the general idea.
Count de Tournay: You left me little choice.
Chauvelin: That was the general idea.
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Chauvelin: I realized that your noblesse oblige would not permit you to abandon one of your men.
Sir Percy: Sink me, if you aren't right. For a change.
Sir Percy: Sink me, if you aren't right. For a change.
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Chauvelin: I realized that your noblesse oblige would not permit you to abandon one of your men.
Sir Percy: Sink me, if you aren't right. For a change.
Sir Percy: Sink me, if you aren't right. For a change.
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Chauvelin: I want his name.
Danby: The Scarlet...Pimpernel.
Chauvelin: I was beginning to think you'd lost your tongue along with your toenails.
Danby: The Scarlet...Pimpernel.
Chauvelin: I was beginning to think you'd lost your tongue along with your toenails.
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Chauvelin: We shall execute our king instead, sir, and exalt our tailors.
Sir Percy: More's the pity. Then your tailors will rule the land, and no one will make the clothes. So much for French fashion, and French politics.
Sir Percy: More's the pity. Then your tailors will rule the land, and no one will make the clothes. So much for French fashion, and French politics.
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Countess de Tournay: God bless the Scarlet Pimpernel, whoever he may be. Surely he must be an angel in disguise.
Sir Percy: Amen.
Sir Percy: Amen.
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Countess de Tournay: God bless the Scarlet Pimpernel, whoever he may be. Surely he must be an angel in disguise.
Sir Percy: Amen.
Sir Percy: Amen.
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Elderly citizen of Boulogne: We shall have to teach perfidious Albion a lesson!
Percy Blakeney: [to fellow-members of League disguised as French soldiers] It won't take *us* long to cross the Channel, eh boys?
Percy Blakeney: [to fellow-members of League disguised as French soldiers] It won't take *us* long to cross the Channel, eh boys?
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Lady Marguerite Blakeney: Can't you rise above trivialities for once?
Percy Blakeney: Can't rise above anything longer than three syllables, my dear - never could.
Percy Blakeney: Can't rise above anything longer than three syllables, my dear - never could.
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Marguerite: I don't know whether you're mad, or...
Sir Percy: Desperately in love? 'Tis all the same. Tell me, if you can, that you do not feel it, too.
Sir Percy: Desperately in love? 'Tis all the same. Tell me, if you can, that you do not feel it, too.
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Marguerite: They seek him here,/ They seek him there,/ Those Frenchies seek him everywhere./ Is he in heaven,/ Or is in hell?/ My own elusive Pimpernel.
Sir Percy: Sink me, the lady is a poet.
[they kiss]
Sir Percy: Sink me, the lady is a poet.
[they kiss]
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